Cover page of The Meadoway's 2025 annual report with an image of a meadow, pollinator plants, butterflies, and hydro poles. The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority logo appears on the bottom right.

The Meadoway has released their 2025 Annual Report. You can read about last year's highlights including the completion of the Marcos Blvd to Arsandco Park stretch of the trail. Look forward to the Bermondsey to Eglinton stretch next. #BikeTO #WalkTO #ScarbTO #TOpoli themeadoway.ca/app/uploads/...

Area Speed Limit Reductions

This dataset shows, for each ward, the status of speed limits being reduced to 30 km/h on local roads and laneways https://ow.ly/cgj950YmHB6.

Explore the traffic data 🚦

#newdatasetalert #newdatasetrelease 🛑

Thank you!

i showed this to my wife and she would like to know what brand?

What it was like to be a bush at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance The bushes on the field during the halftime show became a meme after the internet found out they were actually human performers.

so i talked to one of the bushes at the super bowl
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...

Always enjoy reading your blog Jun. Thanks for a decade and a half of sharing your bike adventures!

Some good Toronto cycling news to look forward to: with Line 5 finally opening, the City will be opening four new secure bike rooms that will add 270 new secure bicycle spots:
- Mount Dennis station: 80 bikes
- Cedarvale station: 80 bikes
- Don Valley station: 30 bikes
- Kennedy station: 80 bikes

Focus on intricate details of a geographic map, highlighting travel routes.

We just published our 2026 Open Data roadmap 🚦

We share how we built our 2026 roadmap, shaped by past consultations, the Master Plan, and the realities of capacity and impact. Worth a read ...

👉https://open.toronto.ca/toronto-open-datas-2026-roadmap/

From Alberta’s oilfields to geothermal drilling in Scarborough: How the changing energy sector is fuelling a better life for workers At a time when employment in the oilpatch is declining, building housing with renewable energy is a natural pivot for the Canadian economy and those who earn their livelihood from

What a fascinating article - I bike by this site every time I go to work and had no idea

www.thestar.com/news/gta/fro...

Ontario government is consulting on extending the current e-cargo bike pilot. Deadline for comments is Monday January 19

www.regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/proposal/53033

Heated Rivalry and Shakespeare in Lust — Katrina Vogan What can Crave’s hockey romance teach us about Shakespeare?

I wrote about #HeatedRivalry and teaching #Shakespeare. What can Crave's hockey romance teach us about Romeo and Juliet?

www.katrinavogan.com/blog/shakesp...

Stacked bar chart showing the number of apartment units in Toronto by year of construction with categories for private, TCHC, and other social housing. The vast majority were built in the 1960s and 1970s, with a minor up-tick in recent years.

Charting number of rental units in apartment buildings in Toronto by year of construction

(This is a quick update to a similar chart I made ~2.5 years ago)

#toronto #housing #dataviz #NationalHousingDay

For the current ones, you should be able to get most of them from OpenStreetMap:

overpass-turbo.eu/s/2fpc

Unless you rely on your venue to do your ticketing, in which case there might be limits from their technology and policies on what you can offer for resale and exchanges.

Relationship to space (e.g. owning the building, or being on good terms with your landlord) is really important for arts orgs. But having lower power to set prices and thinking about your audience as both ticket-buyers _and_ donors probably influences the consumer-friendliness of ticketing more.

Tessitura adds Vatic to growing list of valued partners Agreement provides arts and culture organizations with full-service pricing solutions

In my experience, non-profit ballet, opera, symphony groups do use dynamic pricing, though possibly in less sophisticated ways that you might see in the private sector. See, e.g. this press release from a common ticketing system used by performing arts orgs: www.tessitura.com/items/articl...

Council voted for more cargo bike racks. Seven months later, the city has only built one. A Toronto bike shop owner said the lack of cargo bike parking is a ‘constant obstacle’ to more people purchasing the family-friendly rigs

www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

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